Clean Aviation
The Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking (CAJU) is a successful partnership between the European Commission and the European aeronautics industry that is on the way to achieving its environmental performance targets. It follows on from its predecessor programme, the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking, in which the university was awarded over €42 million in funding.
The University of Nottingham is a partner in four Clean Aviation projects.
NEWBORN
NExt generation high poWer fuel cells for airBORNe applications
NEWBORN will develop and demonstrate the TRL 4 ground demonstrator of the overall propulsion system using fuel cells technology for electricity generation. The focus is on the optimisation of the aircraft efficiency, as opposed to treating purely the stack power density.
The project further brings the technology of aerospace stacks from Clean Hydrogen, improving on their power density, durability, and modularity.
This project is run in partnership with the university's Power Electronics and Machines Centre.
Learn more at the NEWBORN website
HECATE
Hybrid ElectriC regional Aircraft distribution TEchnologies
The aims and objectives of HECATE are high-power and certifiable electrical distribution for electrical architectures, technology enablers at TRL5 in hybrid-electric propulsion for regional platforms, and to contribute to the reduction of aircraft greenhouse gases.
Nottingham is a partner in the packages on system requirements and architecture, and power conversion.
This project is run in partnership with the university's Power Electronics and Machines Centre.
Learn more at the HECATE website
HERA
Hybrid-Electric Regional Architecture
HERA aims to identify and trade off the concept of a regional aircraft, serving the need for sustainability.
The objectives of the project are to develop the required aircraft level technologies, then to integrate the required enablers to meet the 50% less technology-based greenhouse gas emissions targets.
This project is run in partnership with the university's Power Electronics and Machines Centre.
Learn more at the HERA website
HEAVEN
Hydrogen Engine Architecture Virtually Engineered Novelly
The objective of the HEAVEN project is to develop ultra-efficient gas turbine engines and aircraft delivering 30% fuel burn reduction at aircraft level (20% from propulsion) and substantially reduced emissions for a 2035 Entry Into Service.
It builds upon the maturity of UltraFan® and is linked to other Clean Aviation projects such as ACAP, CAVENDISH, HE-ART & CONCERTO.
This project is run in partnership with the university's Mechanical & Aerospace Systems group.
Learn more at the Clean Aviation website
The projects featured on this page have received funding from Horizon Europe under the European Union’s Horizon Europe Clean Aviation Partnership Joint Undertaking research and innovation programme under grant agreements 101102004, 10110196, 101101961 and 101102007.
The projects featured on this page have received funding from UKRI under the UK Horizon Europe Guarantee, under project references 1006327, 1006474, 10064696 and 10064671.